The surf was good today. Hurricane offshore influenced that. A longboarder wiped out and the board went wild. No leash on it. I held onto for a bit but it was so heavy. I found out later it was made in 1954. Rider told me “it doesn’t ding. It’s made with boat resin.” Every session is an adventure.

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Posted on: 27 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

What a lovely day

There’s some surf coming in because of some storms offshore. Felt like making a reel, so I did. I also put it on Instagram and TikTok. It’s fun to look back and see fun rides. Why not slap them together. And click those links below the video! artlung.com/videos/reels/rideawave2026/

Posted on: 27 September 2026 | 12:11 am

Exporting LiveJournal Posts (in 2026)

I’ve attempted to log in to, or change my password for, LiveJournal several times in the last 15 years or so. It’s never worked right. My account url: artlung.livejournal.com Mostly all I used that site for was as a POSSE and PESOS target. I reposted my blog posts, and reposted summaries of my tweets there...

Posted on: 24 September 2026 | 7:25 pm

There are few things better than beach time with family.

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Posted on: 23 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

We ♥︎ HTML Club

I had so much fun in August on HTML Day. (htmlday.joespartydepot.com) I think it’s time to do something similar but maybe not the same, again. December will be the 4th San Diego IndieWebCamp. (indieweb.org/San_Diego) It’s fun to get get together and write HTML. Websites are so great. Where should we hold it? When should we...

Posted on: 22 September 2026 | 7:10 pm

Glints on the water at the intertidal zone

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Posted on: 20 September 2026 | 4:00 pm

Saturday

Panorama from today. I enjoy riding waves quite a lot. I went to Ocean Beach. Kelly went to San Diego Design Week. I updated my avatar on lots of services. It was a bit easier to do because I have a list of places to update: my Elsewhere page. I also added it (still out...

Posted on: 19 September 2026 | 11:25 pm

Volunteered today. It was fun. #SanDiegoDesignWeek

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Posted on: 18 September 2026 | 10:57 pm

Post session under-pier selfie. Tired.

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Posted on: 16 September 2026 | 11:10 pm

Monday morning the water was choppy

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Posted on: 14 September 2026 | 10:37 pm

PB; HTML Historical Re-enactment

Panorama from Pacific Beach Today Session in the water was “meh” today. When the session is dull I will sometimes muse on what words apply to it. “Desultory” came up a few times. Also I didn’t have an accurate definition of that word in my head. I think I meant something closer to “dismal” or...

Posted on: 13 September 2026 | 7:37 pm

Summer over.

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Posted on: 12 September 2026 | 9:57 am

Gwen; AI; Fins

I updated gwenthegoblin.com with a backup of everything (from the beginning to May) using Memento Mori. Here’s the GitHub issue I participated in. I will be doing this again. I added to a page I started many months ago, with links to how AI is talked about and characterized. It’s my ‘AI’ is… page For...

Posted on: 11 September 2026 | 9:35 am

I don’t get to Windansea enough.

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Posted on: 10 September 2026 | 10:18 pm

On Theranos

Elizabeth Holmes is in the news. In 2019 Alex Gibney released a documentary on what that company did and how it operated. It was called The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. I watched it on HBO. I can remember the feeling of watching it. It made me angry. What follows is an adaptation...

Posted on: 10 September 2026 | 1:42 pm

Switched to the Yucca fins. One handplane. Things are changed; things are good.

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Posted on: 9 September 2026 | 11:57 pm

Officially: fins lost

The blue-with-white tips DaFin fins which I’ve had for several years are officially lost. I mentioned yesterday in Good News; Bad News that on a big wave both my fins came off. As is my habit, I returned to the same beach the day after to look and see if they’d washed up or been...

Posted on: 9 September 2026 | 2:19 pm

Good News; Bad News

Here’s what I texted to Kelly this morning after I went in the water: The good news is I learned I’m not allergic to bees, the bad news is I lost both fins in a very violent wave. The other good news is that I’m fine. I don’t like losing a fin. But I’ve lost...

Posted on: 8 September 2026 | 9:36 pm

Who’s that gull?

Forgive the pun. Who does this gull think they are? I’m checking the surf cameras on Surfline, and notice this gull in the way. Like–excuse me. Can you do your morning groom somewhere else please? Alas, birds will bird the way they want to bird. Yesterday I did maintenance on some even older parts of...

Posted on: 8 September 2026 | 10:03 am

That’s Swell

Like I do, very often, I went to Pacific Beach Today. Here’s the panoramic photo I took before I went in the water. Here’s the Bing maps rendition of the spot. How impossibly blue is that water? The current was strong. I had an instinct that the current was strong and north. That’s the state...

Posted on: 6 September 2026 | 6:46 pm